I don’t think people unfamiliar w/ UK and Irish politics are necessarily getting the full context and are agreeing to a hypothetical celebration of the downfall of the UK.
Which is fine, but let me explain because it’s actually very important that we as leftists know this. Northern Ireland has been under British colonial occupation for 101 years and as such, is part of the UK. Mary Lou McDonald, of the Sinn Féin party, is an Irish Republican, ie socialist, and wants to unite Northern Ireland and Ireland. This would be an incredible and historic achievement of the Irish gaining total freedom and independence from British colonizers.
Piers Morgan, as is obvious, is a right-winger with reactionary politics who is crying on Twitter about the idea of a united Ireland because he believes it would “collapse” the UK. Which is all good and well as far as I’m concerned. But also as leftists we should absolutely cheer on McDonald’s victory and the campaign for a united Ireland as we should for any country under colonial occupation to gain its independence.
Can it be that he sleeps when others wake, that he may be awake whilst they sleep?
i think the strangest part of this as a modern reader that grew up in a soup of pop culture vampire references
is that i actually don’t know what Jonathan doesn’t know about vampires until he has an epiphany like this one!
when jonathan figures something out my reaction continues to be - “wait, you didn’t know that”? - even knowing that jonny doesn’t have genre awareness, i still get caught!
jonathan reverse uno carded dracula in today’s entry like ‘you steal my clothes and impersonate me in the town? well two can play at THAT game, sir! see how much u like it when i lizard-fashion scuttle my way up the walls and into YOUR bedroom window and invade YOUR privacy by staring at YOUR sleeping and/or dead body!!!!’
Watching today’s episode scrunched up on the sofa muttering to myself, “please don’t die. for fuck’s sake jonathan don't— shit he’s gonna die they’re gonna kill him off aren’t they… Oh thank god he made it”
Friendly reminder that this blog is pro-choice and if you don’t think everyone should have full control of their own body, then kindly unfollow me right now and go to hell
Idk who needs to hear this but celebrities, actors, youtubers, podcasters, etc are not fictional characters. They are not your blorbos. They are real people with real lives and they exist outside of entertaining you. Sometimes they fuck up and make mistakes. Sometimes they’re awful pieces of shit. Sometimes they just want to be left alone. Their lives are not your fandom drama.
They are also not your friends. They don’t need you defending them from discussions about their fuck ups. They don’t know you. You don’t know them. The person you think you know is a persona crafted for the public and that is true for ALL celebrities, whether they’re world famous actors or Minecraft youtubers. That’s not a bad thing, it’s just part of separating their work from their lives.
Don’t let your admiration of someone’s work keep you from seeing reality. They are literally just people.
This isn’t about anything specific, just a general reminder. Be chill please.
(Though, honestly, this is mostly about people rabidly defending their fave youtubers from criticisms about racism. Stop that shit.)
